All New Orleans public and Catholic schools will be closedagain Wednesday due to wintry weather. The Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School Board issued a joint announcement Tuesday shortly before 1 p.m. for their conventional schools and on behalf of their charter schools.

RSD spokeswoman Cay Kimbrell said schools expected to be open Thursday.

The five city schools that are authorized directly by the state also will remain closed: Lycee Francais, all campuses of the International School of Louisiana, International High School, the New Orleans Military/Maritime Academy and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. All these schools enroll some students who live outside New Orleans.

New Orleans' unique all-choice public school system partially accounts for the closings. Because any student may go anywhere, every school has students traveling across bridges, which ice over before roads.